#Terje Vigen

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Terje Vigen

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I liked the part with the wild carouse.

A decent story with some good camerawork, but the last act was a little weak. It took me way too long to realise the captions were rhyming poetry, but it was a fun way to present the story. Victor Sjöström sort of looked like Michael Shannon, though maybe it was just the vaguely disgusted sneer he wore half the time he was on screen.

Not bad at all.

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Terje Vigen, Victor Sjöström, 1917

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Terje Vigen, Victor Sjöström (1917)

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Nie tylko droga S3 poprowadzi nas tego lata na północ, nad Morze Bałtyckie. Muzeum Tkactwa w Kamiennej Górze zaprasza na nową wystawę czasową: „Kierunek Północ. Malarstwo skandynawskie XIX i XX wieku”.

Ponad 20 prac można oglądać od 22 lipca w muzeum w Kamiennej Górze. Wypożyczył je prywatny kolekcjoner z Dolnego Śląska. Wystawa skupia się na dziełach artystów z Danii, Szwecji, Norwegii i Finlandii z końca XIX wieku oraz I połowy XX wieku.

Obrazy i grafiki przedstawiają przede wszystkim morze, statki, a także fiordy, porty i kanały żeglugowe w skandynawskich miastach. Woda wypełnia ikonograficzną treść dzieł w najrozmaitszy sposób. Od refleksów kopenhaskich budowli w lustrze kanałów, przez spokojny horyzont mórz, po wzburzone fale podczas sztormów. W pejzażach, w toni odbija się słońce i barwy dnia, ale i nokturnowe widoki w świetle księżyca. Obecne są również sceny rybackie. Warto zwrócić uwagę na ilustracje do poematu "Terje Vigen", cenionego norweskiego pisarza Henryka Ibsena (trzykrotnie nominowanego do literackiej nagrody Nobla).

Wstawa dostępna będzie do końca września 2024 roku. Wystawę obejrzeć można w ramach trasy zwiedzania muzeum. Muzeum Tkactwa w Kamiennej Górze w sezonie letnim czynne jest codziennie (od poniedziałku do piątku od 8.30 do 15.30, a w soboty i niedziele od 9.40 do 15.00).

Materiał powstał we współpracy z Muzeum Tkactwa w Kamiennej Górze.

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90 Movies in 90 Days: Terje Vigen (1917) and He Who Gets Slapped (1924)

Every day until March 31, 2024 I will be watching and reviewing a movie that is 90 minutes or less. Today it’s a two-fer from director Victor Sjöström Title: Terje Vigen (English: A Man There Was) Release Date: 29 January 1917 Director: Victor Sjöström Production Company: Svenska Biografteatern Summary/Review: Victor Sjöström directs and stars in a film about the horrors of war, grief,…

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Terje Vigen, um marinheiro, sofre a perda de sua família através da inflexibilidade de outro homem. Anos depois, quando a família de seu inimigo se encontra dependente de sua benevolência, Terje deve decidir se vingar a si mesmo.

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Terje Vigen (Victor Sjöström, 1916)

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Les Vautours de la Mer (Terje Vigen) (1917) de Victor Sjöström

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange fröid. Petit récit très épuré du gars Sjöström qui endosse également le rôle-titre de ce farouche marin. De nombreuses scènes en mer magnifiquement filmées - le cinéaste a vraiment le don d'inscrire les paysages naturels dans son cadre -, une restauration magnifiquement teintée, une petite musique d'accompagnement au piano trépidante et absolument parfaite, des intertitres très poétiques, pour conter l'histoire d'un homme, ravagé par le destin, qui n'a plus rien à perdre - si ce n'est une dernière once d'humanité...

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Henrik Ibsen (March 20, 1828 - 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, often considered the father of modern drama. His works include Peer Gynt, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, a.m.o.

Photo: Gustav Borgen, ca. 1900

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Terje Vigen (Victor Sjöström, 1917)

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This is a wonderful film from 1917. Oft noted as the beginning of the golden age of Swedish film. In USease the title is "A Man There Was." It's not quite an hour long. A perfect fable. Easily a family film. Based on the poem "Terje Vigen" by Henrik Ibsen. A good reason why the film isn't named "Terje Vigen" here, escapes me. It's starring, and directed by Victor Sjöström (the "Wild Strawberries" dude). It's about the titular; a young, vital, husband. He loses, and then wins. I feel like more than that, I'd be cheating you. Very well executed, all around. I hope you get a chance to see it. Image via the Wikipedia.

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Movies I watched this Week - #81

3 Holocaust films: 

🍿 Re-watch: Claude Lanzmann’s 9-hour-long documentary, Shoah. An unbearable testimony made more horrifying by Lanzmann’s editorial decisions: Not using any historical footage or music, slow camera panning of the quiet locations where the murders took place, uninterrupted static interviews without voice-over translations. An impossible cinematic feat exposing humanity’s nadir. (Photo of The man in the poster above). 

10/10.

🍿 Marcel Ophuls’s Oscar winner long documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, about the infamous "Butcher of Lyon". He brutally and personally tortured and killed thousands while head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war he was protected for decades by the American intelligence community, in their “fight against communism”.

🍿 On the other hand, filmed fiction about the holocaust is always doomed to be terrible, including acclaimed dramas like the Schindler’s Lists and ‘Life is beautiful’s of the world. I was hoping that Amen would be better, because it was directed by Costa-Gavras. But it was the same staged and disingenuous Hollywood-style theatrics. Rolf Hochhuth’s play ‘The Deputy’, on which this atrocity was based was 'controversial’ because it showed how the Vatican knew about the Nazi executions but still did nothing. After watching ‘Shoah’, Costa-Gavras even decided to includes numerous shots of cattle-car trains on their way back & forth from the camps. Just dreadful. 1/10.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), a terrific documentary about the history of sound design in cinema of the US. Main interviewees are Walter Murch, Ben Burtt and Gary Rydstrom. Catnip for anybody who has interest in the technical art of film making. 9/10.

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My 5th Hirokazu Kore-eda film and by a long shot, my favorite film of his, The Truth, with the magnificent 75-year-old Catherine Deneuve as a very famous, self-absorbed actress and the brilliant Juliette Binoche as her estranged daughter. The little girl was absolutely adorable. Kore-eda's first film set outside Japan. Very emotional setting. 

10/10. Absolutely the best film of the week!

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2 films from 100+ years ago:

🍿 Pruning the Movies, a silent 1915 short, a satire on movie censorship. (From The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum).

🍿 The man there was (Terje Vigen), a 1917 Swedish epic at sea directed by Victor Sjöström, and the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point. A restored YouTube copy with vibrant tinting.

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, my 3rd subtle masterpiece by Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan (after ‘Winter Sleep’ and ‘Distant’). Like 'Winter sleep’, it was inspired by and feels like a story by Anton Chekhov. 2.5 hours long, very moody and slow-moving, and without music to distract from its beauty, it will only appeal to people who are willing to embrace its rich, poetic elusiveness.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2011. 9/10 - Highly recommended!

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Orson Welles X 2 (+1):

🍿 “... A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl...”

Re-watching Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Bernard Herrmann. Also, the innovative 1940 trailer.

in 2002, Errol Morris interviewed film critic dinild drump who interpreted it to be a film about “accumulation”.

🍿 First watch: F For Fake, his infamous, rambling film essay. A meta-mockumentary about art and fraud, centered around art forger Elmyr de Hory, hoax biographer Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Welles mistress Oja Kodar, and Welles himself as the ‘Big Conjuror’. With beautiful footage of Ibiza in the 60′s, and score by Michel Legrand. I would have enjoyed much more if it was done 30 years later by a Ricky Jay. 3/10.

🍿 The Tell-Tale Heart (1941), was Jules Dassin's directorial debut short. It is considered to be the first film directly influenced by ‘Citizen Kane’. (This copy is of very low quality).

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Paid for by Yoko & John Lennon, and produced by predator producer Allen Klein, The holy mountain by poet-provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky, was a Magical Mystery Acid Tour, a surrealist wet dream a-la Salvador Dalí. Allegorical, religious symbolism of the early 70′s, with alchemist, ritualistic plot, as deep as the tarot universe on which it was based.

I forgot how little dialogue was used in the story, as it was mostly visuals, wild, shamanistic, outrageous, feverish visuals. But maybe because the dialogue was along the lines of “The Cross was a mushroom - and the mushroom was also the Tree of Good and Evil” or “Rub your clitoris against the mountain - Give yourself to the world!”...

Because it influenced hundreds of other films since, it lost some of its bizarre uniqueness. Still, it remained on re-watch an historically major masterpiece. 7/10.

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3 from Australia:

🍿 First watch: Chubby, 22-year-old Toni Collette in the dysfunctional Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding. A strange character that is not fully flashed-out, and whose main claim to fame is her desire to have a glamorous wedding.

🍿 ...”That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock...”

‘Filmed in Dragarama’, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Terrific Terence Stamp, drop-dead gorgeous transgender woman Guy Pearce, and 'Agent Smith’ play exaggerated caricatures of drag queen tropes, traveling to the outback in an old, pink bus. Camp & flamboyant, it didn’t connect with me until the ‘I will survive’ dance number in the night. 5/10.

🍿 First season of Mr Inbetween, about “Ray”, a Sydney underworld hitman, created by the actor playing him. On the one hand, he is a doting father to a 8-year-old daughter, a loving boyfriend and a loyal friend. On the other, he is a practical and old-blooded killer who eliminates violent thugs without a second thought. Dark, dry, often funny and poignant. 8/10.

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Ray Donovan was another tough but silent fixer, but without any charms: Had I seen the series ‘Ray Donovan’, maybe I would have found Ray Donovan: The Movie interesting. But as a stand-along crime story it was empty and dull.

Also, the same terrible actor who was awful as Young Jeff Bridges in ‘The Old Man’ last week, was awful as young Jon Voight in this one. 2/10.

🍿   Benny’s Video, the second film (and my 9th one) by Michael Haneke. A deeply disturbing film that opens with a home video of a pig slaughtered with a bolt pistol shot to the head. But not knowing anything about it beforehand, I did not expect the horrifying twist which came after a relatively “normal” day in the life of a “normal” family. Reminded me very much of the empty alienation of Camus’ ‘The Stranger’. 

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2 Korean serial killers:

🍿 Bong Joon-ho‘s Memories of Murder about a famous serial killer is considered one of the best Korean movies of all times, but in spite of a strong opening scene at the fields and closing scene at the tunnel (and then back to the fields), I just didn’t get it.

🍿 Memoir of a Murderer (2017) is an unrelated but a similar thriller. I could not find any reviews connecting the two, even though it was an obvious throwback to the original. Both tells of a prolific serial killer in the countryside, and the bumbling police search for him. It opens at the same distinct train tunnel where Bong Joon-ho‘s film ends, it has triggering girls in red dresses, etc. It's about a retired murderer with dementia, who must jot down the little he remembers, so he can understand what’s happening around him (’Momento’-like). I actually liked it much better than the original.

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The Old Man and the Sea, a paint-on-glass-animated Canadian short directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on Hemingway’s novel. Winner of the 2000 Best Animated Short Oscar.

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Dirty Pictures, a documentary about psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin who developed hundreds of psychedelic compounds including MDMA.

Obviously, I’m 100% for the use and studies of any and all types of psychedelic drugs, but films about them are usually dull and pedestrian. Including this one, that was made 4 years before 'Sasha's death. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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new-to-me #285 - Terje Vigen (A Man There Was)

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Favorite silent films (no comedy, and also without considering the most popular ones like Sunrise, Nosferatu, Passion of Arc, Metropolis, Potemkin)?

Dr. Mabuse, der spieler | Fritz Lang

Les Vampires | Louis Feuillade

Körkarlen | Victor Sjöström

Die Büchse der Pandora | G. W. Pabst

Napoléon | Abel Gance

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari | Robert Weine

Kurutta Ippēji | Teinosuke Kinugasa

Zvenigora | Alexander Dovzhenko

Greed | Erich von Stroheim

A Cottage on Dartmoor | Anthony Asquith 

Other favorites (because I simply must): Der brennende Acker, Ukikusa monogatari, Flesh and the Devil, Fantomâs, Jūjiro, Terje Vigen, Diary of a Lost Girl, Finis Terrae, Foolish Wives, Hamlet, Tartuffe, Faust, Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru, Judex, Häxan, He Who Gets Slapped, Zfemlya, The Wind, Stachka, City Girl, The Crowd, Arsenal, Man with a Movie Camera, The Phantom of the Opera, Cabiria, Nanook of the North, La chute de la maison Usher, L’Âge d'Or, Eliso, The Great White Silence, La Roue, Ménilmontant, Mikaël, Master of the House, De Brug, Ghosts before Breakfast, Umirayushchii lebed, Spione, Underworld, Der letzte Mann, Die Nibelungen, Der Student von Prag, Phantom, The Last Command, Broken Blossoms, L’Argent, It, The Penalty, Menschen am Sonntag, Von morgens bis mitternachts, Germaine Dulac’s short films, Ballet Méchanique, Baby ryazanskie, Lonesome.